Dervla McTiernan

And he starts to stalk her and that escalates.

And it's a Stephen King book, so there are elements of the supernatural throughout, but it's really about a marriage.

It's Lisa looking back over their marriage.

They're deeply loving, but very complicated marriage.

And there's this internal language that they used with each other.

And it is the most beautiful book.

It's just a stunning, stunning book.

And it just, I love it for many reasons, but one of the reasons I love it as a writer is because it just puts the light to the categorization of books.

That's right.

It's just whatever.

Anything else?

There's probably one more.

And this, I wouldn't say had any, I couldn't claim that it shaped me as a writer because it's only out since last year, but it's kind of reminded me what I love about series writing in particular.

And that's the most recent Robert Galbraith, Lethal Leaf of White.

But also, apart from being a wonderful book, the characters are so brilliant.

And I enjoyed all of the books, but this is the one where I really fell in love with them.

This is the one where I was hanging out with Cormoran and Robin and I didn't want to leave them.

You know, I just wanted to stay in their company all of the time.

So that's the lovely thing about a nice series is coming back to the characters that you love.

And that's what that reminded, as a writer too, where you are writing a series and you just need that reminder sometimes that there is an appeal in the same characters coming back.